David E. Nye

David Edwin Nye (* 1946 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American Americanist and historian .

Life

Nye studied at Amherst College , where he received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in American studies in 1968 . He then continued his studies at the University of Minnesota , where he received a Master of Arts in American Studies in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1974. PhD in American Studies . Nye taught from 1974 to 1978 as Assistant Professor of American Studies at Union College in Schenectady , New York, and was Director of American Studies from 1978 to 1981 . During this time he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Oviedo in Spain from 1977 to 1978 . From 1981 to 1982 he was a visiting scholar for the history of science at Harvard University and a visiting scholar for Science, Technology & Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

In 1982 he settled in Denmark . From 1982 to 1987 he was Associate Professor of American Studies at Odense Universitet . After teaching as Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Copenhagen from 1987 to 1991 , he returned to Odense in 1992 and took up teaching there at the Odense campus of the Syddansk Universitet , in which the Odense Universitet had meanwhile been absorbed, as a professor of history and American Studies. As such, he was chairman of the University's Center for American Studies from 1992 to 1997, 2000, 2003 to 2004 and 2007 .

In 1998 he was Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Leeds University . In 1999 he was Carlsberg Fellow at Churchill College of Cambridge University . In 2003 he was Welch Visiting Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame . From 2005 to 2006 he was Visiting Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Warwick .

He was a member of the Executive Board of the Nordic American Studies Association from 1987 to 1989 and again from 1992 to 1996 . In addition, he was a member of the Editorial Board of Critical Studies in Mass Communication from 1987 to 1991 , and of the Editorial Board of American Studies from 1993 to 1997 . From 1996 to 2003 he edited the journal American Studies in Scandinavia together with Carl Pedersen . He later served on the editorial board of the Journal of American History and was chairman of the editorial board of American Studies in Scandinavia .

Nye is a member of the Society for the History of Technology and was on its executive committee from 2000 to 2003. He is also a member of the American Studies Association , the European Association of American Studies and the Nordic Association for American Studies . From 1992 to 1995 he was Vice President of the Nordic American Studies Association and from 1992 to 1994 he was President of the Danish American Studies Association .

He was the only academic to be awarded the Dexter Prize (1993), the Leonardo da Vinci Medal (2005) and the Sally Hacker Prize (2009) by the Society for the History of Technology .

Publications (selection)

• Henry Ford: Ignorant idealist. (1979, New York: Kennikat Press)
• A History of the Youth Conservation Corps. (1981, Washington: United States Government Printing Office )
• (Ed.): A Catalog of the General Electric Photographic Archives, 1890-1940. (1981, New York: General Electric Co.)
• The Invented Self: An Anti-biography of Thomas A. Edison. (1983, University of Southern Denmark Press)
• Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric. (1985, MIT Press )
• with Christian Kold Thomsen (Ed.): American Studies in Transition (1985, Odense: Odense University Press)
• with Niels Thorsen, Carl Pedersen: American Studies: A Source Book. (1989, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag)
• Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940. (1990, MIT Press)
• with Carl Pedersen (Ed.): Consumption and American Culture. (1990, Free University of Amsterdam Press)
• Contemporary American Society. (1990, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag)
• American Technological Sublime. (1994, MIT Press)
• with Mick Gidley (Ed.): American Photographs in Europe, 1840-1990. (1994, Free University of Amsterdam Press)
• Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. (1997, Exeter University Press)
• Consuming Power: A Cultural History of American Energies. (1998, MIT Press)
• (Ed.): Technologies of Landscape: Reaping to Recycling (2000, University of Massachusetts Press)
• America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. (2003, MIT Press)
• Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. (2006, MIT Press)
• with Thomas Johansen: The American Century: A Chronology and Outline (2007, Odense: SDU Forlag)
• (Ed.): Beyond the Crisis in American Studies: Scandinavian Perspectives (2007, Odense: SDU Forlag)
• Living in the world of technology: everyday culture from natural tools. (2007, Berlin & Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademisk Verlag)
• Technologie & Civilization: 10 questions fondamentales liées aux technologies. (2008, Paris: Fyp éditions)
• When the Lights Went Out: A History of American Blackouts. (2010, MIT Press)
• America's Assembly Line (2013, MIT Press)

Web links

• Entry on the website of the Syddansk Universitet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Curriculum Vitae (as of 2006) , website of the Syddansk Universitet
2. ^ America's Assembly Line , MIT Press website